This royal infant, (heaven still move about her !) Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, Which time shall bring to ripeness: She shall be (But few now living can behold that goodness,) A pattern to all princes... The Inland Educator - Page 1031895Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 588 pages
...For Heaven now bids me ; and the words I utter Let none think flattery, for they'll find them truth. This royal infant, (Heaven, still move about her !)...wisdom and fair virtue, Than this pure soul shall be. All princely graces, That mould up such a mighty piece as this is, With all the virtues that attend... | |
| Peter Worsley - 1984 - 424 pages
...sycophantic worship of Gloriana occurs, fortunately, in an apocryphal play: This royal infant . . . Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings . . . . . . She shall be ... A pattern to all princes living with her, And all that shall succeed .... | |
| Anne Barton - 1984 - 394 pages
...'A most unspotted lily ... To th' ground, and all the world shall mourn her' (Hen. VIII v. 3. 61-2), 'A pattern to all princes living with her, / And all that shall succeed' (22-3), is far more resonant and moving than the rather dutiful and perfunctory compliments which Cranmer... | |
| Phyllis Rackin - 1990 - 276 pages
...the troubled reigns of his predecessors and successors. Cranmer describes Elizabeth in similar terms: "She shall be (but few now living can behold that...princes living with her and all that shall succeed" (V.iv. 20-23). Like the fleeting apparition of Elizabeth at the end of Henry VIH, the brief time of... | |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1990 - 185 pages
...birth of Elizabeth. The concluding speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury opening with the incantation: This royal infant — Heaven still move about her...promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, is a form of prophesy of what the Elizabethan age was to be. It gave Shakespeare the splendid opportunity... | |
| Tony D. Triggs - 1995 - 54 pages
...life. ffl Key ideas primary evidence Protestant Roman Catholic secondary evidence This royal infant, Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand blessings which time shall bring to ripeness. 9. Elizabeth I The playwright William Shakespeare wrote... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2008 - 246 pages
...For heaven now bids me, and the words I utter 15 Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth. This royal infant — heaven still move about her...Which time shall bring to ripeness . She shall be — 20 But few now living can behold that goodness — A pattern to all princes living with her, And... | |
| Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 440 pages
...For Heaven now bids me; and the words I utter Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth. This royal infant (Heaven still move about her!),...princes living with her And all that shall succeed. Saba7 was never More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue Than this pure soul shall be. All princely... | |
| Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 pages
...speaks for heaven in celebrating Henry VlII's paternity and in prophesying that Elizabeth will prove 'A pattern to all princes living with her, And all that shall succeed' (All Is True, 5.4.22-3), Palamon and Arcite fight to the death under the aegis of Mars and Venus. In... | |
| Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...Henry vili and Anne Bullen. After her christening procession, Cranmer delivers a prophetic panegyric: This royal infant - heaven still move about her Though...princes living with her, And all that shall succeed. Saba was never More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue Than this pure soul shall be. All princely graces... | |
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